Are you freakin kidding me? Rant

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It's pool league night (APA). I've been working 7 days a week since April. My game has sucked for a while! I show up and get matched up against a 6 (I've been knocking on six for a while). I play well and down him 4-2. I'm finally playing like myself. I'm feeling it.

I stop over at my old haunt to check out the tables. This bar is huge and there are about 15 people in the entire place. I bring my cues in. An old team member is there and wants to play me for a few dollars. We play a couple of games and I'm up 2-0. He goes to grab a couple of beers when out of nowhere a girl comes over and grabs our cabaret table and yanks it about a foot towards the pool table we are playing on. I reach out and grab my cues as they are falling towards the floor. WTF? Beer is spilled everywhere.

I grab my case, joint protectors, keys, and phone and quickly move them to the wall 10 feet away. REALLY? One of the guys I'm playing starts to get mouthy with the girl and her boyfriend jumps in. This is retarded!

I run to the bar to grab a dry towel in case my cues got splashed. I return to find the same girl trying to move the electronic dart machine... and knocks my case and cues over AGAIN! I am LIVID!!!! I asked her WTF she was doing. "we want to play darts!". THEN ASK US IF WE CAN MOVE? REALLY!?!?!?!

I hadn't been in that place in over a year.....and won't be going back again.!
 
Unbelievable... Her boyfriend had to be a huge douche to put up with that and actually defend her.
 
Two things:

Well, maybe three:

Okay, four:

I like to shoot with nice, somewhat pricey, cues. Whenever I go to bars where nonsense like what just happened to you is possible, my 'good stuff' ain't in my case. However, I do try to keep my mid-level equipment as nice as can be and that sort of inconsiderate behavior would have got me pretty fired up, too.

As far as never going back to that joint, I wouldn't condemn the establishment over the actions of one airheaded patron. Unless the management was okay with her bad behavior. Where I'm at, we don't have an abundance of nice places to play pool. It's a real short list and so I wouldn't have the luxury to scratch one off the list over the clueless gal.

I sure would have made whoever was in charge aware of what happened so they might have had a chance to enlighten her.

I said there was four, let's see.....oh yeah, ***F!#& DARTS!*** ;)

Best,
Brian kc
 
I would suppose everyone has their own take on situations like this. Mine, being an older guy who is currently disgusted with what he sees these days in general, is that when you visit a manure factory, you should probably expect to smell some $h!t.

I mean really, we all know that when people drink they display a multitude of stupid actions. This is no secret. So, when you enter a bar, your odds of being exposed or victimized by some of it should be a given.

In short, I go to Sears to buy underwear, not get my car fixed. Don't go to a bar to play pool and expect anything better than what you experienced and you won't be so surprised by it.

On an aside note, I personally think it is pathetic and unfortunate ( being a prior poolroom owner) that beer leagues are pool these days and the game wouldn't survive without them. It is an evolutionary process we are currently witnessing that will put the final nails in the coffin of pool as more and more people become disgusted with booze and pool and the product they produce.
 
You knew it was a bar when you walked in. Free advice, get a cheap sneaky pete for bars.
 
3andstop said:
It is an evolutionary process we are currently witnessing that will put the final nails in the coffin of pool as more and more people become disgusted with booze and pool and the product they produce.
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Count me as one of the people becoming disgusted. I am in my LAST sessions of pool leagues. The problem is, similar to what you stated, most of the nights in league are played in these seedy little bars in the not-so-nicest neighborhoods, that have some of the most "questionable"-looking people frequenting them. I've had people come up to my 5-cue Q-claw (full of my cues and some of my teammates cues) and try to grab one of our cues thinking they were house cues :eek:. I've seen drunks standing next to (sometimes leaning on) the table we are shooting matches on. I've seen so many cues (including mine) getting knocked over, it sends cold chills up my back. Hell, I could go on and on with the stories, but I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about. I'm going to try playing in more tournaments in "real" poolhalls where a lot of the aforementioned crap doesn't go on (at least not as frequently). I too think that eventually people (poolplaying people) do get disgusted/frustrated with the crap that goes on in the bars.

Maniac
 
Whenever I play ANYWHERE, I find an inside corner/nook to lean my cue. Preferably where no one will even walk near.

If it's a tournament, I break down my cue and put it in the case between matches. That's what a case is for.

-s
 
i believe your first problem is playing in the APA...to me it seems like the APA is a league where the pool doesn't come first for most of the players...its the alcohol.its a night of drinking and the game is just something to do while they drink.
there are some good shooters in the league but with the handicap system always forcing out the top players and new players always having to be brought in..sooner or later all that's left is the beginners and the local drinkers who think they can play...you just don't see that stuff when you play in tourneys.
and we all know that someone with a shitty attitude and no manners in general will always get ugly when you mix in the booze
 
markatwork said:
i believe your first problem is playing in the APA...
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For the record, this happened at a bar that does not have APA sponsored teams playing out of it. It's simply a stand-alone neighborhhod bar, with a monsterous patio, in a decent residential area.
 
you brought your cues into a bar just cuz? No league match there or anything?

bad move.
 
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